How do you indulge your inner you?

[Lesley_Roberta]

Ok I look like a guy blah blah yadda yadda

But on the inside, the real me is an anime girl. I am the goofy one in the show, the overly enthusiastic overly active full of energy girl that also sucks in class too often (hehe personal mark of shame is I sucked in high school regardless of how much I might possess in education as of right now).

I am the cry baby that always bounces right back. That's me alright, it takes almost nothing to hurt my feelings and make me cry.
And the next day I seem to have forgotten everything.

I love anime so much because I can watch it and surround myself in things that let me be me.
I know why my buddies watch anime, they like the darned fan service.
Me, I like the all girl shows that focus on girls being girls (which usually I think bores males to death). No action, no violence, just slice of life girl stuff.

I have many other interests, and I like them just fine, but, when I want to just go full girlie mode, nothing makes me happier than diving into my anime shows. I get wrapped up in the girls in the show and almost feel like I am there with them.

And due to hiding in a library my entire teen years, I really have no recollections of them from the view point of either gender actually. So I have found anime is letting me live a teen girls emotional life if nothing else. I missed out on the programming from either side, so it is not like I have anything to delete in favour of the other.

I am not sure how many can see life that way like myself. I went from pre teen pre jr High right to 17 year old infantry school adult lifestyle with really nothing of note in between. I had army cadets briefly, made a lot of models at home but I spent my time saturated in all things text book otherwise.

Thanks to my anime, I get all the fun of 13 through 17 over and over and over as often as I like, and none of the 'growing pains' normally associated with that age group. I only noticed girls as being interesting when I was 22 I have no interest in males at all.

It tends to make me a rather peculiar woman

I don't really get as much out of the clothing as a lot of the rest of our community here. Clothing is to me, just something you are expected to have on when outside

[Blaine]

And due to hiding in a library my entire teen years, I really have no recollections of them from the view point of either gender actually. So I have found anime is letting me live a teen girls emotional life if nothing else. I missed out on the programming from either side, so it is not like I have anything to delete in favour of the other.

I am not sure how many can see life that way like myself. I went from pre teen pre jr High right to 17 year old infantry school adult lifestyle with really nothing of note in between. I had army cadets briefly, made a lot of models at home but I spent my time saturated in all things text book otherwise.

I can relate to this. I spent all of my teenage years living through the characters in my books (and the stories I started writing) because it let me escape from the stress and the bullying in real life. I took the hardest classes I could find so I would have "studying" as an excuse for everyone to leave me alone. My family tried to get me to join school clubs for years... so I took calculus and five years of Spanish instead.

Now I waste a lot of time playing video games (I'm still addicted to the Sims and Pokémon) and researching things on the internet. I like being the walking Wikipedia.